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Xamarin Launches 4 New Mobile Development Tools

During its Evolve conference, Xamarin unveiled several new cross-platform mobile development tools. They included the following: Xamarin Insights?gathers real-time data that can help determine why apps crash Xamarin Profiler?simplifies the

Explore Some Exciting New Preview Features in Xamarin

The ongoing Xamarin Evolve conference is generating a lot of enthusiasm amongst cross-platform developers across the globe. Xamarin has so far showcased an Android player, a simulator with hardware acceleration

Teradata Launches Cloud for Hadoop

Big data analytics vendor Teradata has announced that it is working with Cloudera on a new cloud computing service called Teradata Cloud for Hadoop. “Teradata Cloud makes it easier to

G.E. to Offer Big Data IoT Platform

G.E. probably isn’t the first company most people think of when it comes to big data software, but the company just announced that revenue from its Internet of Things (IoT)

IBM Launches 8 Watson APIs

IBM has released eight new APIs for its Watson machine-learning platform. Developers can access the APIs through IBM’s Bluemix cloud computing service. The eight available APIs include the following: Language

Splunk, Amazon Partner on Cloud-Based Big Data Analytics

Amazon Web Services and Splunk have announced a new plan to make Splunk’s big data analytics capabilities available through Amazon’s cloud computing services. More specifically, Hunk, Splunk’s analytics tool for

Hey Gartner, Where?s Your Dog Food?

IT industry analyst behemoth Gartner is having their Symposium shindig this week in Orlando, where they made such predictions as ?one in three jobs will be taken by software or

Red Hat Launches JBoss Developer Program

Red Hat has launched a new JBoss Developer Program, which offers a free subscription to JBoss products. It allows enterprise application development teams to use JBoss middleware at no charge

Dart Now a Top 20 Programming Language

In the latest version of the Tiobe Index, Google’s Dart became one of the twenty most popular programming languages for the first time. The language, designed as an alternative to

HP to Split into Two Companies

After The Wall Street Journal reported that HP planned to break itself into two separate companies, the company has confirmed the rumors. By the end of its 2015 fiscal year,

An Easy Way to Compare Cloud Computing Prices

Different cloud computing vendors price their wares in a dizzying array of different ways, making it very difficult to compare prices. To make that task a little easier, RBC Capital

Visual Basic Viruses on the Rise

Back in the 90s, there was a surge on viruses written in Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) that spread through infected Microsoft Word documents. That trend tapered off in 2001,

Microsoft Debuts Windows 10

On Tuesday, Microsoft unveiled a preview of the latest version of its Windows operating system. The update, which had been codenamed “Threshold,” will be released as “Windows 10.” The name

Oracle: To Change or Not to Change

In some ways, Oracle?s self-congratulatory San Francisco shindig known as OpenWorld is as gripping as any Shakespearean tragedy. For all the buzz today about transformation, agility, and change, it?s hard

Best Practices to Protect Big Data

The security aspects of Big Data applications are often ignored or treated as a secondary requirement. But data security has a tremendous impact on the application as it is handling

Gridstore Extends Product Line With HyperConverged Appliance

Delivers the First All-Flash Converged Elastic Infrastructure Purpose-Built for Hyper-VGridstore???, the leader in converged infrastructure purpose-built for Microsoft Hyper-V, today introduced a range of Hyper-V focused hyper-converged appliances, including the

Scalable CMS Platforms in Azure

Azure is increasingly becoming the scalable CMS platform with support for a host of popular CMS providers via the marketplace. The list already includes some of the big names in

Cisco Adds 30 Partners to Its Intercloud

Cisco has added thirty more partners to Intercloud, the company’s effort to build a “cloud of clouds.” Those new partners include service providers, distributors and resellers that operate more than

Amazon’s Cloud Gets a Reboot

Between September 26 and September 30, Amazon Web Services is planning to reboot many of its EC2 cloud computing instances. The company said it is applying software patches that require